Each day the instructor will introduce one invention skill, one organization skill, and one stylistic skill. During the final hour of each day, students will write an essay implementing their new skills. The instructor will provide feedback daily. Each evening for homework, students will write another essay for the next day of class.

Tentative Schedule

Monday

Invention: Definition

Organization: Basic Paragraph structure

Style: audience determines diction

Tuesday

Invention: Relationships: Comparison

Organization: Hinrich’s paragraph structure

Style: Strong Subjects: Eliminating deadwood

Wednesday

Invention: Relationships: Cause and Effect

Organization: Thesis statements and Five Claims

Style: Brush Strokes (Killgallon) using multiple phrases and clauses in one sentence.